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

Margaret Mead

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
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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
‎ 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
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman

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