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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.

Margaret Mead

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
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
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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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science

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