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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

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
Society
Ends
Rewarded
Children
Feeds
Believe
Tales
Expectations
Expect
Violence
Successful

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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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