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Margaret Mead has 170 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so…
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
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By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.
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Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.
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Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading…
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to…
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
— Aldous Huxley
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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,…
— Margaret Mead
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John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed…
— Maureen O'Hara
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
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