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Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

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Millicent Fenwick
Age: 82 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 25
Died: 1992
Died: September 16
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Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick
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The business of government is justice.
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Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
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A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
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What we do stems directly from what we believe.
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I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
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The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
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In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?
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