I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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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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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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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.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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