We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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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 more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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 greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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