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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

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
‎ 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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
MARGARET MEAD

Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize

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