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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

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
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Human
Humans
Must
Deepen
Evolve
Species
Conversation

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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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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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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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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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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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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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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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