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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Margaret Mead

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Success Willing
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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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
MARGARET MEAD

Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
MARGARET MEAD

Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
MARGARET MEAD

Community Creep Invention
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
MARGARET MEAD

Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEAD

Guilty People Sleep Young
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEAD

Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Human Order Understand
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEAD

Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution

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