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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
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
World
Indeed
People
Embrace
Kindness
Inspirational
Change
Ever
Believe
Generosity
Never
Caring

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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