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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution

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