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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.

Margaret Mead

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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself

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