Quote by Margaret Mead
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at

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. – Margaret Mead

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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Family
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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

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Food
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you dont agree with or like. – Margaret Mead

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respect
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Other Quotes from
America
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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America

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau

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America

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph

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America

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I do come from a strong family. – Arlen Specter

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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. – Hugo Chavez

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architecture

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. – Voltaire

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Psychology

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future! – Gail Simmons

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Future