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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Margaret Mead

Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man

Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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