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June 4, 2008

Margaret Mead

“We’ve been living through a period in which the old have been recklessly discarded and disallowed … Given an opportunity to participate meaningfully in new knowledge and new skills, and new styles of life, the elderly can embody the changing world in such a way that their grand-children – and all children of the youngest generation – are given a mandate to be part of the new and yet maintain human ties with the past which, however phrased, is part of our humanity.”

:: (1901-1978) American cultural anthropologist

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