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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

Topics

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In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Jehane Noujaim

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Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Michael Arndt

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Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.

Michael Chabon

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I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.

Stan Lee

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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Tony Campolo

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A lot of fitness has that very masculine energy and drive, and that never worked for me. I want to be challenged. I don't want to be told that I'm terrible and that I suck and that I'm not good enough - that's not motivating.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.

Mike Daniels

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You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

Draymond Green

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For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

Chiang Kai-shek

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People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

Bonnie McKee

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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Antonio Tabucchi

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If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.

Pim Fortuyn

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