You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEADMonogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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