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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Philadelphia
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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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 people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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