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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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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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.
