Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEADJealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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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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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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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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