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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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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.
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