The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADThrough a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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