Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
MARGARET MEADThere is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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