A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
MARGARET MEADIt used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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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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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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