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" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "
Margaret Mead
Die
Sooner Or Later
Retire
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "
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" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
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" It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. "
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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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" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "
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" And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. "
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" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "
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" Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. "
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" Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. "
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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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" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "
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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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" Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. "
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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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" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "
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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "
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" I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "
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" The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. "
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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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" 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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" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "
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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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" 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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" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
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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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