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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.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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