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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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 discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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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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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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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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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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