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Robert Briffault Quotes: The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
         

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.


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The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.



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For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.



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