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" I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "
Margaret Mead
Doing
World
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" Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "
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" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
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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. "
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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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" Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. "
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" 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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" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "
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" It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. "
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" I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. "
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" The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. "
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" A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. "
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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. "
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" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "
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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 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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" 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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" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
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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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" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
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" 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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" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "
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" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "
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" Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. "
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" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "
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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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