Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEADGrandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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