Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEADMen have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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 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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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