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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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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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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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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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human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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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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