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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Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead

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Sisters
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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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History
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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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I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. – Tiger Woods

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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. – Anne Tyler

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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. – Giada De Laurentiis

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A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. – Chris Christie

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