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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
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Anything
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
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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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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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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.
Margaret Mead
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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.
Margaret Mead
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Margaret Mead
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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
Margaret Mead
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
Margaret Mead
