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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. ↗

— John Mellencamp

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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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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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