Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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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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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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 is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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