Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEADThe time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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