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

Margaret Mead

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.
MARGARET MEAD

Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
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
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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

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