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

Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World

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

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