If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADAnd when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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