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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Margaret Mead

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
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

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