American - Scientist | December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead
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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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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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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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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.
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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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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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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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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.
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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