Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEADWhere we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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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.
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