The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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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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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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