Margaret Mead Short Quotes

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Everything is grist for anthropology's mill.

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

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The negative cautions of science are never popular.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

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Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

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Humanity... lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.

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Throughout history, females have picked providers for mates. Males pick anything.

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

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In all cultures, human beings — in order to be human — must understand the nonhuman.

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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

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Leisure does not automatically develop the soul. And this is the real dilemma of Americans.

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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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The ability to learn is older — as it is also more widespread — than is the ability to teach.

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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

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