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" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "
Margaret Mead
Educated
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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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" And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. "
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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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" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "
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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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" I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "
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" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "
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" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "
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" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "
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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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" 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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" 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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