It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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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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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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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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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