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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

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
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
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
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
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
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
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
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
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
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
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
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
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol

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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