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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

Margaret Mead

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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEAD

Bed Care Learning Yourself
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
MARGARET MEAD

Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Society Teaching Woman
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Act Biology Human Myself Realize
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
MARGARET MEAD

Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
MARGARET MEAD

Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War

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