Quote by Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have t

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. – Margaret Mead

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

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. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you dont agree with or like. – Margaret Mead

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respect
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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Family
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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. – Martin Heidegger

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Time

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldnt be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country. – Ron Paul

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Time

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because theyre not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates

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Time

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Dont put them both together by claiming you dont have the time. – Bo Bennett

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Time

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Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. – Paul Tsongas

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