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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

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown

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