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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get ...  
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it'...  
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone els...  
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: ...  
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and ...   Science
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of ...   Age
Because of their agelong training in human relations-for that is what ...  
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.  
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.  
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before...  
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.  
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as...  
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contrib...  
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add...  
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we ...  
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class,...  
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.  
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal p...  
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must ...  
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to ge...  
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.  
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, in...  
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can c...   Nature
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself ...  
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dw...  
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you ar...  
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together ...  
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because t...  
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil f...  
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.  
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history ...  
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimenta...  
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping ...  
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon ...  
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all ov...  
To cherish the life of the world.  
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no on...  
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.  
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.  
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirel...  
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as poss...