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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

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
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
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
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
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
MARGARET MEAD

Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social

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