We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEADThe ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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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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