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.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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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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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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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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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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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