Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Quotes by Margaret Mead
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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