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If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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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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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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