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
MARGARET MEADFor the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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