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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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