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" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "

Margaret Mead

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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "

" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "

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" As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. "

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" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "

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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "

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" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "

" 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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" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "