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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
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 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
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
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

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