What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEADNobody 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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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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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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