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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Margaret Mead

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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
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
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
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
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

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