There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEADIn almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Somehow, 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.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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