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Quote by Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers

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

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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. – Margaret Mead

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether its on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. – Rowan Atkinson

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The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. – Author Unknown

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Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. – Appius Claudius

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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. – James Meade

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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