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.
MARGARET MEADHome, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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 negative cautions of science are never popular.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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