Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
MARGARET MEADIt was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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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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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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