There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEADWhat we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Never 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.
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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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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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