You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEADLoving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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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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