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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."

"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."

"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."

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."
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