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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
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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Accuracy Believe Information World
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power

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