And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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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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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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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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We 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.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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