Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEADWe have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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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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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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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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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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