Margaret Mead's Quote - Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Sooner or later Im going to die, but Im not going to retire. – Margaret Mead

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead

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