Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist
Lived from: 1901 - 1978
Category: Scientists Country: 
United States
Born: 16 december 1901 Died: 15 november 1978
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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.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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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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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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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.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
― Margaret Mead
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