I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEADI think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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