I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEADOur first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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