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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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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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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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