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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

Margaret Mead

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

Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
MARGARET MEAD

Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Success Willing
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning End Hands Life Voice
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
MARGARET MEAD

Greatness Power Woman World
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
MARGARET MEAD

Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
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
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
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
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
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

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