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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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" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "

" 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. "

" I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. "

" 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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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "

" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "

" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "

" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "

" One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. "

" 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. "

" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "

" I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. "

" I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "

" 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. "

" It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. "

" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "