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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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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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Science
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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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Age
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. – Margaret Mead

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Grandparents
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. – William Hazlitt

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Nature

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature

If you cant be in awe of Mother Nature, theres something wrong with you. – Alex Trebek

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Nature

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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Nature

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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. – J. B. Priestley

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I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique. – Celine Dion

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The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini

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Truth

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. – Bryant McGill

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