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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
Effortless
Breathing
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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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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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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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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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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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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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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
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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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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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