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The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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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What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody has ever 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
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
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
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Margaret Mead
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
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
- Margaret Mead
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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead
Prayer does not use up artificial energy,
doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute.
Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
- Margaret Mead
I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors,
woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile
and never directly inherited.
- Margaret Mead
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
A city is a place where there is no need to
wait for next week to get the answer to a question,
to taste the food of any country,
to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
- Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
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