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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Margaret Mead

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
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
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust

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