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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

Margaret Mead

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
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
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social

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