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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

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