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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

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
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
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
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
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
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown

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