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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.

Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
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
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman

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