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Quote by Margaret Mead
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. – Margaret Mead

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Women
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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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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I dont notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. – Vivienne Westwood

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Ive been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. – Jamie Lee Curtis

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I think Im a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. Its not about being shameful, Im just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. – Kristen Stewart

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Negative politics have always been around. – Karl Rove

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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. – Vietnamese Proverb

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake

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Ive always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But its also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark

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