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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong

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