Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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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. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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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

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

— Margaret Mead

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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

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

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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

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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

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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

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