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" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "
Margaret Mead
Fierce
Women
Combat
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" I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. "
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" Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. "
Margaret Mead
Want
Possible
Men
" 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. "
Margaret Mead
Food
Need
Place
" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
Margaret Mead
Man
Role
Uncertain
" 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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Our
Together
Never
" 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
Behavior
Question
Punishment
" 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
Values
Culture
Find
" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Young
History
Seeing
" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "
Margaret Mead
Educated
Children
Many
" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "
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Social
Accidents
Biological
" 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
Age
Religion
Opportunity
" 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
Burn
Energy
Prayer
" We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. "
Margaret Mead
Nowhere
Go
Else
" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "
Margaret Mead
Die
Sooner Or Later
Retire
" 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
Pain
Follow
Other
" Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. "
Margaret Mead
Within
Family
Relationship
" Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. "
Margaret Mead
Every Time
Liberate
Man
" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "
Margaret Mead
People
Wise
Enough
" The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. "
Margaret Mead
Over
Never
Come
" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "
Margaret Mead
People Say
Say
They Say
" 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
Admit
Her
Measure
" Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. "
Margaret Mead
Wonder
Science
Look
" Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. "
Margaret Mead
Unique
Remember
Funny
" 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
Parents
Youth
Lost
" A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "
Margaret Mead
Change The World
People
Change
" 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
Point
Now
" And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. "
Margaret Mead
Own
Baby
Struggles
" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "
Margaret Mead
Time
Television
History
" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "
Margaret Mead
Children
Up
Tomorrow
" 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
Family
Way
Support