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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

Margaret Mead

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social

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