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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.

Margaret Mead

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEAD

Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
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
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
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
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement

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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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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