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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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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
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