The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEADWe 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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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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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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