Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
MARGARET MEADNever depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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