"What people say, what people do, and what……" — Margaret Mead
"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
— Bob Beauprez
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we…
— Candice Bergen
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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