Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEADSooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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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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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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