We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEADWhat is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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 think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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