Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
MARGARET MEADAlways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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