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Margaret Mead Quotes

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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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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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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We won‘t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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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.
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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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.
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