There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADPigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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