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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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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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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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