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

Change ChangeTheWorld Citizens Committed

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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.

Margaret Mead

Admit Beings Contributions Fellow

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Believe Caring Change ChangeTheWorld

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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Margaret Mead

Die Going Later Retire

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Margaret Mead

Every EveryTime Liberate Man

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

Margaret Mead

Air Come Never Over

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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

Able Anthropology Astonishment Been

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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

Altogether Childbirth Could Different

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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

Accurate AccurateInformation Add Believe

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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.

Margaret Mead

Adult Any Become Before

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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

Before Censored Elders First

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

Baby Began Born Compels

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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 Educate Knew Knows

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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

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity

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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

Accept Evil Good Label

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Change ChangeTheWorld Could Ever

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

Different DifferentThings Entirely People

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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

Century First FirstTime Get

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

Come Having Home Human

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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Adult Children Depends Grow

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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead

Capacity Having Ruined Two

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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Margaret Mead

Else Go Nowhere

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Mediocre Men Possible Want

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Absolutely Always Else Everyone

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Margaret Mead

Children High-Quality Instead Lots

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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

Destroy Environment Society

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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

Asked Before Box Ever

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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.

Margaret Mead

Any Based Behavior Cowardly

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Before Being Censored Elders

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

Margaret Mead

Man Perhaps Role Uncertain

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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.

Margaret Mead

Again Answer Any City

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

Hard HardWork Learned Value

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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Margaret Mead

Because Believe Combat Females

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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

Believing Enough Fooling Grow

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

Margaret Mead

Aggressive Constructive Destructive Human

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

Margaret Mead

Children Device Educated Male

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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.

Margaret Mead

Agree Dealing Like Manners

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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

Becomes Competitive Family Grown

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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.

Margaret Mead

Age Arbitrary Childhood False

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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'

Herbert Spencer

Marriage Word Pronounced mirage

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

Great aim Education Knowledge Action

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

Wise man Remember Past Future

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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

Society exist Benefit Members

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Government is essentially immoral.

Herbert Spencer

Government Immoral

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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

Commonly see Diminution Freedom

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

Misused words Generate Thought

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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer

Man's knowledge Order Confusion

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Preservation Health Physical morality

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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132 Anthropologist Quotes

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

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

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

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

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

Margaret Mead

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

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

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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

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

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

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

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'

Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.