Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADThere are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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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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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 anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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