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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Margaret Mead

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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
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
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
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

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