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

Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
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
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching

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