You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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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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 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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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