Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEADMy grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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