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Quote by Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of etern

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. – Margaret Mead

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead

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Men
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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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History
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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Fear
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage. – James F. Bell

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Fear

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus

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Fear

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Fear

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own. – Titus Livius

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The 80s made up for all the abuse I took during the 70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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