"What we lack is not so much leisure……" — Margaret Mead
"What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us."
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Margaret Mead
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
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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…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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