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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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Film Director
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