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 MEADThroughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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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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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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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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