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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
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.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem

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