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Margaret Mead Quotes: human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
         

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.


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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.



I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.



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I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.

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