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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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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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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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