Conditions Quote by Margaret Mead

“Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.” quote by Margaret Mead — Download Open image

“Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.”

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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…

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls…

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for…

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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what…

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Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly…

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The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .…

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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is…

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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press…

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