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.
MARGARET MEADThere is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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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 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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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