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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
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
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male

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