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.
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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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It makes a lot of sense to me. She seems to me like a Jewish woman, the way she thinks and behaves.
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Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.
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I don't know John Riggins. I mean, I've met him a few times, and I had dinner with him once.
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Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.
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A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?
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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.
