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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
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
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
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.

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