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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Margaret Mead

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 way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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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Community Creep Invention
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
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
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
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment

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