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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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