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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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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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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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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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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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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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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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In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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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 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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