You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
MARGARET MEADManners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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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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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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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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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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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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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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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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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