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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

Margaret Mead

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Goodness Society Thinking
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
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
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
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

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