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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Margaret Mead

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
MARGARET MEAD

Civilization Life People Realize Way
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD

Destroy Environment Society
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
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
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEAD

Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
MARGARET MEAD

Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
MARGARET MEAD

Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
MARGARET MEAD

Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex

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