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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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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Men
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Loyalty
Love
Expression
Laughter
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Anger
Living
Grief
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Hate
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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