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Quotes from And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America — Margaret Mead

1901–1978 United States

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There is no necessary connection between warfare and human nature. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942)

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Mead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.