I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEADWe must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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