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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Margaret Mead

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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
Sentimentality
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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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