Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

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The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

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When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

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