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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

It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

Different Entire People
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
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
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Care Change People Power
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
MARGARET MEAD

Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder Experience Young
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEAD

Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
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

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