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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Margaret Mead

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
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
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
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong

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