What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
MARGARET MEADThe time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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