Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEADIn Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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 have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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