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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible 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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
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
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

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