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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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
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
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman

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