Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEADWhat 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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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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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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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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