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.
MARGARET MEADFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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