There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEADPeople are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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