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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Margaret Mead

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species

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