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Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The...

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Find a subject...

Find a subject...

Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your...

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God forbid that...

God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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I am only...

I am only...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do...

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Fear is a...

Fear is a...

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore...

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The greatest genius...

The greatest genius...

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest...

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The Dodo never...

The Dodo never...

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all...

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Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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Forgiveness is the...

Forgiveness is the...

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Source: Life's...

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I have always...

I have always...

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No...

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One-half the troubles...

One-half the troubles...

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon...

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What Mrs. Thatcher...

What Mrs. Thatcher...

What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do...

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Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't...

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Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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Ralph Ellison: The end is...

Ralph Ellison: The end is...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Source: Invisible Man, 1952
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Agatha Christie: We owe most...

Agatha Christie: We owe most...

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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J B S Haldane: The wise man...

J B S Haldane: The wise man...

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as...

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