It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, bu… - Margaret Mead

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 – 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Bateson • Margaret Mead Bateson • Margaret Fortune • Margaret Mead Fortune

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