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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
Fieldwork
Metamorphosis
Air
Come
Way
Never

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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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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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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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