What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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