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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary

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