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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

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
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman

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