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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

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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
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
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself

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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