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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

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
Cultivation
Leisure
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Human
Humans
Inextricably
Interdependent
Capacities

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Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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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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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.
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