Margaret Mead Quotes
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
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I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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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.
