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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

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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
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 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

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way

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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.

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