Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
MARGARET MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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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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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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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 believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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