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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

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
Human
Humans
Inextricably
Interdependent
Capacities
Cultivation
Leisure
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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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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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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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