Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEAD
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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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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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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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 people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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