A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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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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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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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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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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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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