No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
MARGARET MEADGrandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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