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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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
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You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
