Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEADYou know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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