I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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 believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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 must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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