Margaret Mead Quotes
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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In Paradise perchance the eye may stray from gazing upon everlasting Day to see the day illumined, and renew from mirrored truth the likeness of the True.
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I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
