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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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