WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
MARGARET MEADWe have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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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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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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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 Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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