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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question

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