Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEADAnd when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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