Behavior Quote by Margaret Mead

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

Margaret Mead

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

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