I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEADSooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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