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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.

Margaret Mead

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
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 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
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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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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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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