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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.

Margaret Mead

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
MARGARET MEAD

Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
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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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
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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Accuracy Believe Information World
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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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Life Live People Study Understand

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