Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADWe – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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