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.
MARGARET MEADWhat is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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