What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEADYou know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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