If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADMy grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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