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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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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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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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. – Peter Alexander Ustinov

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom

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America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. – Hunter S. Thompson

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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just cant have everything you want. – Bernard Baruch

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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. – J. Edgar Hoover, attributed

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If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, theyre going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time. – Ricky Schroder

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