Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
MARGARET MEADLoving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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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 negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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