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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
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
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion

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