Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
MARGARET MEADThe way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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