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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

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
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
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
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
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
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
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
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 will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
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

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