There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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