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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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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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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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