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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young

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