Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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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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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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