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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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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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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.
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The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
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In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world
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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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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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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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