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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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
Pennsylvania
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Environment
Nature
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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