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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Margaret Mead

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
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
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
‎ 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
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 won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

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