Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
MARGARET MEADTo demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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