We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
MARGARET MEADEveryone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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