Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEADThere are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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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 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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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