Quote by Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potenti

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

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. – Margaret Mead

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Success
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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Family
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

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Nature

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Nature

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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Nature

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature

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It is impossible to love and to be wise. – Francis Bacon

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