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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Margaret Mead

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Goodness Myself Possible School
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Life Live People Study Understand
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEAD

Pay Possible Price
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEAD

Creative Force Woman Zeal
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEAD

Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
MARGARET MEAD

Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
MARGARET MEAD

Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant

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