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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Grain
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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