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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

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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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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Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead

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Sisters
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Other Quotes from
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Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. – Aeschylus

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Nature

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Nature

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. – Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794

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Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J. G. Ballard

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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