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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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