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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.

Margaret Mead

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
[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
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
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
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize

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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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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