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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

Margaret Mead

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique

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