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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

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
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
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
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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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle

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