The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEADWhere we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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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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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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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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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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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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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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