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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are not sleeping with someone.

Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
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
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
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
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize

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