Margaret Mead Quotes

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

Any Based Behavior Cowardly Eternal Ethical Fear Merely Open Punishment Question Regarded Should Whether

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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

Age Arbitrary Childhood False Learning Middle Middle Age Old Old Age Play Put Regrets Utterly Work

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

~ Margaret Mead

Accept Evil Good Label Lesser May Must Necessary Necessary Evil Never Temporarily

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

~ Margaret Mead

Century First First Time Get Jump Life Like Parachute Right Time Twentieth Twentieth Century You

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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

~ Margaret Mead

Man Perhaps Role Uncertain Undefined Unnecessary

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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

~ Margaret Mead

Children Device Educated Male Many Simple Societies Teaching Them Women

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

~ Margaret Mead

Believe Caring Change Change The World Ever Few Indeed Never People Who World

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

Change Change The World Citizens Committed Doubt Ever Group Indeed Never Only Small Small Group The Only Thing Thing Thoughtful World

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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.

~ Margaret Mead

Asked Before Box Ever Family Impossible Itself Live Nobody Nuclear Put Relatives Situation Support Way

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

~ Margaret Mead

Come Having Home Human Human Needs Needs Night Oldest Someone Where Wonder You

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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

~ Margaret Mead

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity Infinitely Inherited Learned Never Our Patterns Rests Series Together Woven

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

~ Margaret Mead

Any Artificial Burn Dance Does Energy Fossil Fossil Fuel Fuel Love Neither Prayer Song Up Use

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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

~ Margaret Mead

Becomes Competitive Family Grown Most Once Relationship Sister Sisters Strongest Within

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

~ Margaret Mead

Die Going Later Retire Sooner Sooner Or Later

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

~ Margaret Mead

Before Censored Elders First First Time History Made Seeing Television Thanks Time Young

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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

~ Margaret Mead

Altogether Childbirth Could Different Effects Follow Kinds Mind Other Pain Pains Were

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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

~ Margaret Mead

Adult Children Depends Grow Grow Up How Large Large Measure Measure Our Problems Solution Today Tomorrow Up

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

~ Margaret Mead

Air Come Never Over Until Up Way

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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

~ Margaret Mead

Children Educate Knew Knows Must No-One Now Our Point Prepare Schools Where Yesterday

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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

~ Margaret Mead

Else Go Nowhere

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