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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem

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