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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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