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.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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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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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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