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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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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
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