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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
‎ 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

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