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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

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
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Children Place Trust
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
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Access Human Need Order
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
MARGARET MEAD

Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEAD

Communication Himself Lonely Person
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
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
MARGARET MEAD

Peace Reward System War
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
MARGARET MEAD

Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
MARGARET MEAD

Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

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