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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

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
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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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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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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