Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
MARGARET MEADLaughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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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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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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