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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are…
— Annie Besant
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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
— Michael Bloomberg
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will…
— Jimmy Carter
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
— Andrew Jackson
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and…
— Sydney J. Harris
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to…
— Unknown Author
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I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
— Thom Yorke
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A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
— Sparky Anderson
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that…
— Christy Mathewson
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