"I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life."

-- Margaret Mead

#Growing Up Quotes #Stress Quotes #Book Quotes

“Girls in my school were always prettier.”
“We donâ€™t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved”
“Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.”
“I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.”
“it is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it ...”
“Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.”
“Now is the time to move this country forward.”

Source : "O'Reilly 'Stunned' At Caroline Kennedy's 'Catholic Woman' Abortion Remarks". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.newsbusters.org. September 7, 2012.
“Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.”

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