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Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Acceptable Cannot Half Impossible Minority Numbers Plainly Population Show Socially Speaking Women

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Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Acceptable Anywhere Chemical Come Days Get Go Home Length Mars Moon Need Obsolete Other Return Say Spend Technologies Than Then Three Time Us Want Whatever

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It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Acceptable Becoming Girl Just More React Violently

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At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

~George M. Church

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

~George Santayana

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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

~Georges Clemenceau

Topics: Acceptable Breadth Collective His Land Length More Over Single Spread Than Throne Tyrant

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