Margaret Mead

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"To cherish the life of the world."	Philosophy
"To cherish the life of the world."	Wisdom
"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."	Art
"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."	Television
"Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service,... they should not be accepted, voluntarily or through the draft, as combat soldiers.... We know of no comparable ways of training women and girls, and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. This is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce."	Military
"Women want mediocre men. And men are working hard to become as medicore as possible."	Success, Insults
"The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough."	Success, Insults
"One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed."	America
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."	Economics, Retirement
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Art	Change	Darkness
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Economics	Family	History
Insults	Learning	Life
Light	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Opportunity
Philosophy	Power	Religion
Retirement	Science	Success
Television	Time	Wants
Wisdom	Women