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

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. – 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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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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Art is mans nature: Nature is Gods art. – Philip James Bailey

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. – Sidney Sheldon

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