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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

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
Atmosphere
Global
Keys
Interdependence
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Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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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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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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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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