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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Margaret Mead

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
[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
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love

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