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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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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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When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
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the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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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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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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