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

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Margaret Mead, World's Grandmother (1975) by Ann Morse, Charles Morse, Harold Henriksen, p. 9