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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
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 time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman

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