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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

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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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking

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