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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

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
Doesn
Environmental
Doe
Dancing
Love
Neither
Pollute
Dance
Fossil
Prayer
Fossils
Use
Burn
Song
Artificial
Energy
Fuel

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