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"No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society."
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"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."
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"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."
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"No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice."
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"Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true."
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"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"We cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated."
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"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
Effort
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
History
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
Governance
"He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within."
Psychology
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
Knowledge
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society."
Sociology
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
Bravery
"To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution."
Power
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