Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEADYou just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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