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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
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
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
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
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
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
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown

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