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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

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
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Small
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World
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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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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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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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 an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.
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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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[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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The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
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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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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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