I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEADIn Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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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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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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.
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