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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

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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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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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. – Margaret Mead

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Success
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. – Margot Asquith

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The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. – Dave Beard

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

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Sometimes, being an American is a spectator sport. – Terri Guillemets

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. – Oscar Wilde

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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Bore — a person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose Bierce

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