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.
MARGARET MEADEveryone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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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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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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