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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."

"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."

"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
Explore more quotes by 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."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

"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."

"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."

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
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