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

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin

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