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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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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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I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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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.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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