Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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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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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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