I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEADWarfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a 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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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