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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.

Margaret Mead

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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Women have an important contribution to make.
MARGARET MEAD

Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Access Human Need Order
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
MARGARET MEAD

Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
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 anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder History See Time Young
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEAD

Help Invention People Time
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
MARGARET MEAD

Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
MARGARET MEAD

Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.

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