Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEADSomehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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We 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.
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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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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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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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