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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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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 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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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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 way of life.
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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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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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Maleness in America is not absolutely defined it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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