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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Margaret Mead

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
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
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
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
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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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle

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