The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
MARGARET MEADOur 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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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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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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