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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
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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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
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
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
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
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment

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