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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

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.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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
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
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.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
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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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
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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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself

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