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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.

Margaret Mead

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
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
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
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
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War

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