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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
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
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
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

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