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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
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The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
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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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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
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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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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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