Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEADThere are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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