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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Margaret Mead

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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 end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
‎ 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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World

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