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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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" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "

Margaret Mead

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" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "

" 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. "

" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "

" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "

" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "

" Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "

" 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. "

" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "

" Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. "

" Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. "

" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "

" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "

" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "

" 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. "

Margaret Mead

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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. "

" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "

" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. "

" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "

" Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. "

" 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. "

" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "

" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "

" I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "

" One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. "

" We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. "

" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "