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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

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
Never
Founded
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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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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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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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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
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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 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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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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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
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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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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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