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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Margaret Mead

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
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
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
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
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer

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