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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Margaret Mead

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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
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
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent

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