Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEADI learned the value of hard work by working hard.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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