Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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