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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

- Margaret Mead | Canada and Canadians Quotes

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

- Margaret Mead | Family and Ancestry Quotes

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead | Power Quotes

In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.

- Margaret Mead | Revolution and Reform Quotes

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

- Margaret Mead | Women Quotes

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

- Margaret Mead | Other Side Quotes

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

- Margaret Mead | Self-Control Quotes

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

- Margaret Mead | Positive Quotes

I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.

- Margaret Mead | Success Quotes

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 | Work Quotes

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

- Margaret Mead | Perfection Quotes