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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

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

Bed Care Learning Yourself
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
MARGARET MEAD

Greatness Power Woman World
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Success Willing
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Goodness Myself Possible School
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

Different Entire People
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
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEAD

Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
MARGARET MEAD

Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work

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