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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

Margaret Mead

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
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
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
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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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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
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
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World

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