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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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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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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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[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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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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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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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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