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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

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
Atmosphere
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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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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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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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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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