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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 Banned Books Week '93: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (1993)

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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: Some Personal Views (1979)

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples — faraway peoples — so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Justin Wintle (2002)

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)

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

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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