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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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD

Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEAD

Communication Himself Lonely Person
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEAD

Competition Relationship Sister Strong
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEAD

Help Invention People Time
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
MARGARET MEAD

Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
MARGARET MEAD

Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
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
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

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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