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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

Margaret Mead

The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
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
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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