Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEADWarfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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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.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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