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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

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
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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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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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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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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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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
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