There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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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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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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