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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

Margaret Mead

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
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
‎ 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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person

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