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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Margaret Mead

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond

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