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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.
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