I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEADPrayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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