Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEADWE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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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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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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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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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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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