Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEADIt is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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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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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