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Margaret Mead Quotes
«Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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autonomy, go to sleep, lights-out, lights, place of birth, reflects, rooms, starve, treatment
«Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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Television
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censored, censors, elders, for the first time, thanks
«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»
Author: Margaret Mead
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based, behavior, cowardly, ethical, ethical behavior, punishment, regarded
«In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world»
«When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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altered, Animal World, biological, clues, clue in, contemplation, fascinated, female, followed, handicaps, intricate, invented, metals, model, mystic, mystics, natural world, of their own, outer, pattern, properties, saint, The Saint
«Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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accepting, artificial, by artificial means, emphasis, female body, imperatives, limitation, pattern, rhythm, rhythms, transcendentally
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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alternative, bearable, bred, breeding ground, close set, closing, day in day out, describe, doom, dot, dots, dotted, immolate, incapable, inexorably, postulate, postulates, preaches, presently, Prophecies, prophet, randomly, situate, situated, situating, spill, The Prophet, The Trap, torches, trap, tremendous
«It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.»