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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
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
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
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
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
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking

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