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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Margaret Mead

[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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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 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
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
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
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.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

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