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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Life Live People Study Understand
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
MARGARET MEAD

Experience Leisure Reflection Time
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEAD

Help Invention People Time
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEAD

Creative Force Woman Zeal
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
MARGARET MEAD

Genuine Group Position Relation Society
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEAD

Bed Care Learning Yourself
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Goodness Society Thinking
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEAD

Guilty People Sleep Young
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
MARGARET MEAD

Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness

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