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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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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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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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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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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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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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
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The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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