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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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