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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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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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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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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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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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Maleness in America is not absolutely defined it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
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