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By merely collecting observations it can be decided whether the mare is as fast as the stallion, or whether male chimpanzees excel their mates in intelligence tests — whereas the human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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Personal accomplishment is almost impossible in the human categories that are maintained collectively in an inferior situation.

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It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

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All agree in recognising the fact that females exist in the human species; today as always they make up about one half of humanity. And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity.

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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

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It is among the psychoanalysts in particular that man is defined as a human being and woman as a female—whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

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The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

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Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

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