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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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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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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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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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