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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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More quotes by Margaret Mead
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
Margaret Mead
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
Margaret Mead
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret Mead
Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
Margaret Mead
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.
Margaret Mead
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
Margaret Mead
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.
Margaret Mead
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
Margaret Mead
the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
Margaret Mead
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
Margaret Mead
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
Margaret Mead
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
Margaret Mead
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
Margaret Mead
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
Margaret Mead
