“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
— Margaret Mead
Author: Margaret Mead
Category: nature
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It is utterly False and cruelly arbitrary
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: work
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Thanks to television, for the first time
“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: thankful
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: religion
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I do not believe in using women
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: women
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As long as any adult thinks that
“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: age
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: funny
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I learned the value of hard work
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
— Margaret Mead
Author: Margaret Mead
Category: learning
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It is an open question whether any
“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
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Category: fear
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Thanks to television, for the first time
“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
— Margaret Mead
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Category: history
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship
“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
— Margaret Mead
Author: Margaret Mead
Category: relationship
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