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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
MARGARET MEAD

Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
MARGARET MEAD

Order Yourself
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
MARGARET MEAD

Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
MARGARET MEAD

Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
MARGARET MEAD

Different First National Press Run Society View
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
MARGARET MEAD

Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEAD

Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary

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