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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.

Margaret Mead

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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person

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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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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