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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

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
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
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
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
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
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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

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