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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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 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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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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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 way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.
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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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