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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Margaret Mead

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
MARGARET MEAD

Different First National Press Run Society View
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
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
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD

Destroy Environment Society

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