For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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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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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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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
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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