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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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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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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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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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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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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 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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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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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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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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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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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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