Quote by Margaret Mead
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by its

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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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but its in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. – Adriana Trigiani

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I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. – Harry Houdini

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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponents pressure, and the temporary failures. – Vince Lombardi

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A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this—animated, but collateral. – Rose Macaulay, Daisy & Daphne, 1928

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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. – John Henry Newman

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. – Groucho Marx

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