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.
MARGARET MEADIf man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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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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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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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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