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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.

Margaret Mead

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
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
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound

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