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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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