There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADNever ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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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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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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