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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Margaret Mead

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
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
‎ 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
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
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

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