The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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