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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
MARGARET MEAD

Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship

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