Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
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.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
- All from Margaret Mead, 1901 - 1978
About: Margaret Mead was born at Philadelphia on 16 Dec in 1901; when she died in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world. She wrote 20 books and was coauthor of 20 more. Her most famous work, "Coming of Age in Samoa", has come under attack, but she certainly contributed to the public awareness of anthropology and the quotes here certainly sound sensible.
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
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.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
- All from Margaret Mead, 1901 - 1978
About: Margaret Mead was born at Philadelphia on 16 Dec in 1901; when she died in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world. She wrote 20 books and was coauthor of 20 more. Her most famous work, "Coming of Age in Samoa", has come under attack, but she certainly contributed to the public awareness of anthropology and the quotes here certainly sound sensible.
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