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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

Margaret Mead

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
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD

Breathe Effort Love
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Learning Old Teaching
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning End Hands Life Voice

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