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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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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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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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 may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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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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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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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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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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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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I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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