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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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 have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
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
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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