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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
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
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
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
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
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place

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