You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEADJealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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 pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Somehow, 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.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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