The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
MARGARET MEADYou know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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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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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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