“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”
Source: Race and Democratic Society (1945), Chapter 2.
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Kurt Lewin (1946) "Behavior and development as a function of the total situation". In K. Lewin (Ed.) Field theory in social science (pp. 238-305). New York: Harper & Row. p. 240 as cited in: John F. Kihlstrom (2013) " The Person-Situation Interaction" http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/PxSInteraction.htm
1940s

A Potters Book (1940) Faber & Faber,London 1978 (reprint of 1940) ISBN 978-0571109739

Source: 1970s and later, Explorations in the functions of language, 1973, p. 49 cited in: William O. Beeman (1986) Language, Status, and Power in Iran. p. 65.

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 272

Under section header: The Enterprise as Society's Mirror
1930s- 1950s, The New Society (1950)