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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations. ↗

— George H. Mead

#differences #different #interest #method #nations

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. ↗

— George H. Mead

#drawn #individual #line #psychology #sharp

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. ↗

— George H. Mead

#animal life #deal #does #forms #great

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

#answer #any #city #country #familiar

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

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#childbirth #could #different #effects #enveloping

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy. ↗

— James Meade

#been #between #corpus #economic #economic policy

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. ↗

— James Meade

#economic #economic theory #economics #especially #i

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy. ↗

— James Meade

#discussions #drafts #employment #government #governmental