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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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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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Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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