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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

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
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
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

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