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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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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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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
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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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Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
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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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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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