A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
MARGARET MEADEven though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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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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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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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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