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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
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
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time

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