Believe Quote by Margaret Mead

“It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.” quote by Margaret Mead — Download Open image

“It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.”

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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…

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls…

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for…

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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…

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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what…

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Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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