What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEADLoving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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