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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
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.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
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
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown

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