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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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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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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
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