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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
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"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."
"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."
"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
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