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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Way
Never
Fieldwork
Metamorphosis
Air
Come

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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
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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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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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