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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Margaret Mead

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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

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