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Margaret Mead
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“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
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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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“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
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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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“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
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“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
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“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”
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“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
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“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”
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“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
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“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
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“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”
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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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“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
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“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.”
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“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
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“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
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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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“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.”
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“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
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“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
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“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
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“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
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