Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEADFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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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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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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