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"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers."
"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."
"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning."
"We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes."
"In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past."
"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."
"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."
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