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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

Margaret Mead

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
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
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
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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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
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
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching

You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

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