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‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Margaret Mead

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
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

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