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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

Evil

May

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

People

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

Society

Environment

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.

Margaret Mead

Mind

Pain

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Mead

Humanity