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

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present

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