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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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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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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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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.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
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A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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