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Margaret Mead Quotes
Margaret Mead
American
Scientist
Born:
Dec 16
,
1901
Died:
Nov 15
,
1978
Children
People
Time
Women
World
You
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
You
Remember
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Absolutely
Like
Always
Just
Unique
You Are Amazing
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
Environmental
Change
World
Doubt
Group
Change The World
Indeed
Thoughtful
Citizens
Only
Small
Small Group
Never
Committed
The Only Thing
Ever
Thing
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
Change
People
World
Few
Believe
Change The World
Caring
Indeed
Never
Who
Ever
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead
Society
Destroy
Environment
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
Family
Relationship
Sister
Once
Strongest
Most
Within
Becomes
Sisters
Grown
Competitive
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
Work
Hard Work
Learning
Value
Learned
Working
Working Hard
Hard
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Change
People
World
Group
Change The World
Indeed
Thoughtful
Thoughtful People
Only
Small
Could
Small Group
The Only Thing
Ever
Thing
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
Religion
Class
Age
People
Opportunity
Sex
Some People
Loathsome
Range
Must
Some
Color
Delightful
Instead
Stereotypes
Learn
Within
Being
Children
Each
Presented
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead
Home
Needs
You
Someone
Having
Come
Wonder
Human
Where
Human Needs
Oldest
Night
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead
Women
Believe
Too
Combat
Because
Females
Fierce
Using
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead
Culture
Gift
Achieve
Will
Values
Rich
Recognize
Must
Arbitrary
Find
Fabric
Weave
Diverse
Fitting
Contrasting
Human
Place
Which
Social
Richer
Social Fabric
Less
Whole
Each
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
Work
Learning
Age
Old
Old Age
Arbitrary
Put
False
Childhood
Middle
Middle Age
Regrets
Play
Utterly
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
Success
Must
Admit
Individual
Terms
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Makes
His
Contributions
Human
Human Beings
Personally
Measure
Beings
Her
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
Today
Problems
Tomorrow
Our
Solution
Adult
How
Up
Depends
Children
Measure
Large
Large Measure
Grow
Grow Up
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
Love
Prayer
Song
Dance
Energy
Neither
Does
Up
Artificial
Any
Burn
Fuel
Use
Fossil
Fossil Fuel
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Good
Evil
Must
Temporarily
Never
Accept
Label
May
Lesser
Necessary
Necessary Evil
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Time
History
Made
First
Before
Young
Seeing
First Time
Very
Being
Censored
Elders
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead
Accidents
Fathers
Social
Dad
Biological
Necessities
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
Mind
Pain
Other
Kinds
Follow
Could
Altogether
Were
Effects
Childbirth
Different
Pains
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
Women
Men
Possible
Want
Working
Mediocre
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
Yesterday
Our
Must
Point
No-One
Knew
Schools
Knows
Educate
Where
Children
Prepare
Now
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
Nature
Aggressive
Human Nature
Destructive
Potentially
Constructive
Human
Orderly
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead
You
Respect
People
Manners
Way
Like
Dealing
Agree
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Thankful
Time
History
Made
First
Before
Thanks
Young
Television
Seeing
First Time
Censored
Elders
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
Age
Youth
Old
Long
Parents
Become
Lost
Before
Own
Introspective
Adult
He
Like
Invoking
Him
Understand
His
Any
Teachers
Thinks
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
Together
Humanity
Our
Woven
Directly
Rests
Never
Learned
Infinitely
Behaviors
Patterns
Inherited
Series
Fragile
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