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

Margaret Mead

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
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
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
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman

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