Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEADContentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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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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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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