Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
MARGARET MEADI was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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 atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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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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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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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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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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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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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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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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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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