Margaret Mead

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"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."	Age, History, Time
"We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle 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."	Ability, Art, Life
"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone."	America, Destruction, Power
"Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law."	Family
"One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed."	America
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."	Economics, Retirement
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."	Change, Doubt
"Never doubt that a small group of commited citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."	Change, Doubt
"The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough."	Success, Insults
"All of us who grew up before the war are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. The young are at home here. Their eyes have always seen satellites in the sky. They have never known a world in which war did not mean annihilation."	Philosophy
"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."	Age, Darkness, Learning
"Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible."	Desires, Men, Monarchy
"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."	Family
"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."	Success, Life
"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute."	Religion
"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."	Wisdom
"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."	Time
"Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service,... they should not be accepted, voluntarily or through the draft, as combat soldiers.... We know of no comparable ways of training women and girls, and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. This is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce."	Military
"[Anthropology demands] the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."	Science
"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."	Philosophy
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Ability	Age	America
Art	Change	Darkness
Desires	Destruction	Doubt
Economics	Family	History
Insults	Learning	Life
Light	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Opportunity
Philosophy	Power	Religion
Retirement	Science	Success
Television	Time	Wants
Wisdom	Women