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Life In The Twentieth Century Is Like A Parachute Jump
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it
right the first time.
-- Margaret Mead
Related:
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. -- Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. -- Margaret Mead
You can't expect a mother to be with a small child all the time" Margaret Mead once remarked
with her usual good sense, but in 1978 she shocked feminists by snapping that women don't really have children to put them in day care twelve hours a day, either....
Back in the twentieth century, the H-bomb was the ultimate weapon, their doomsday machine.
And we used something like it to destroy another doomsday machine....
Riker: "Know this one? Twentieth-century Earth. Maybe I can teach you a lick or two.
Amarie: "You already have." -- "Unification II", Stardate 45245.8...
Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?" -Leela "Well, sure, but not in our dreams.
Only on TV and radio...and in magazines...and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky....
And Fry, we owe you a tremendous debt as well. Were it not for your twentieth century garbage-making skills, we'd all be buried under twentieth century garbage.
Mayo...