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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
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No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.
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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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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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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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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
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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 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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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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