The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEADI learned the value of hard work by working hard.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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