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

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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Other Quotes from
America
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew

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America

The freedom we have in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling. – Amali Ryvre, 2007

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America

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer

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America

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

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America

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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. – Og Mandino

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Appreciation

But I dont want massive layoffs of anyone – public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. – Scott Walker

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Government

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939

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Presidents Day

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. – David Hockney

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Morning