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Margaret Mead

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEAD

Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEAD

Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
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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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEAD

Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small

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