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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

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
Never
Founded
Succeed
Education
Art

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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