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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."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"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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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"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."
Science
"Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth."
Life
"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."
Idea
"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."
Life
"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."
History
"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
History
"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma."
Parents
"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."
Home
"I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be."
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"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches."
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