The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADA small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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