More from Margaret Mead

  1. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave …
  2. 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 n…
  3. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
  4. A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own varie…
  5. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
  6. Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not ha…
  7. At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
  8. Be lazy, go crazy.

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