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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

Margaret Mead

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman

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