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

Margaret Mead

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
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD

Breathe Effort Love
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
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
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter

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