The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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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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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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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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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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