I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.Margaret Mead
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
Margaret Mead
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.
Margaret Mead
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