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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
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
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
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
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
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
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society

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