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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
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
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young

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