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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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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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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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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
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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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No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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