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

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. – Margaret Mead

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Women
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. – Margaret Mead

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Time
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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven mens cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish

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Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

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America

It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. – Albert J. Beveridge

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America

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. – Ruben Askew

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My parents separated when I was four. It wasnt the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you cant have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at Gods great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho they come from the ends of the earth! – Rudyard Kipling

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Racism

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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Customs

Im lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. – JoJo

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Trust