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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

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
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price

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