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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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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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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.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
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