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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman

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