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.

About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

—Margaret Mead

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

—Margaret Mead

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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate.

—Margaret Mead

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

—Frank Zappa

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I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that.

—Steven Wright

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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

—Frederick Douglass

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

—Henry Giles

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Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

—John Mellencamp

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