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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

Margaret Mead

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
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
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat 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
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
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
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value

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