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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

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
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Philadelphia
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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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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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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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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