My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEADI do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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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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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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