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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Margaret Mead

Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
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
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
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
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
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place

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