I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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