The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEADBlackberry 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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 solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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