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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

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
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
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
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
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEAD

Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World

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