Margaret Mead Quotes
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Quotes to Explore
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
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My story has been the story of my generation.
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I pretty quickly move from an idea to possibilities for execution. If there's one advantage, I think, with working in television for even a short amount of time is trying to gain a faculty for processing a storyline or an idea and how to then best implement that and execute that as swiftly as possible.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
