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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.

Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Access Human Need Order
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEAD

Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder Experience Young
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEAD

Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
MARGARET MEAD

Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Care Change People Power
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEAD

Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
MARGARET MEAD

Genuine Group Position Relation Society
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder History See Time Young

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