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

Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
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
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

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