I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEADSomehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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 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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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