I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
MARGARET MEADIf the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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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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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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