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4 Margaret Mead Quotes on Community

Margaret Mead quotes on community

  1. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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  2. If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

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  3. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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  4. 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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