I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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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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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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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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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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