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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

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
Ideal
Every
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Culture
Makes
Place
Human
Humans

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