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Margaret Mead

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
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce 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
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant

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