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.

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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), p. 249

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• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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