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Margaret Mead

Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
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.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
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
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
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
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.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World

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