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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.

Margaret Mead

Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
‎ 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
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
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.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
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
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman

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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