The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEADI do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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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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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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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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