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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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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.
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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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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