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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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World
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The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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