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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

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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Right
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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