It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEADThere is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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