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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
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
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
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 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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
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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