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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

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Care Change People Power
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder History See Time Young
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
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.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time

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