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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
[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
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
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
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking

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