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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

Margaret Mead

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
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
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
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
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 do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

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