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" I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. "
Margaret Mead
Manners
People
Respect
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" Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. "
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" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "
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" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "
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" 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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" Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. "
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Prayer
" We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. "
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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
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" Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. "
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" And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. "
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" 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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" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "
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Educated
Children
Many
" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "
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" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "
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Wise
Enough
" The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. "
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Never
Come
" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "
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First Time
Life
" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "
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Up
Tomorrow
" As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. "
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Parents
Youth
Lost
" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
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Environmental
Environment
" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
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Television
History
" One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. "
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You
Night
Someone
" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "
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Value
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" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "
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Culture
Find
" A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "
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Change The World
People
Change
" Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. "
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Wonder
Science
Look
" We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. "
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Children
Point
Now
" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "
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" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "
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" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
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" Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. "
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