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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
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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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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