Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADOur humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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