"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
-Margaret Mead
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"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.“
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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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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
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"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
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