I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEADYou can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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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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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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