We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEADWe must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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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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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 problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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 think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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