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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

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