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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

Margaret Mead

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
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
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
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
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
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

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

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