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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
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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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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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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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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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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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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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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