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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.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
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
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World

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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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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