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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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