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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

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
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
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
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water

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