I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEADIf a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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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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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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