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Franz Boas

"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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Asa Don Brown

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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Asa Don Brown

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

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Asa Don Brown

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

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Asa Don Brown

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

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Asa Don Brown

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

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Asa Don Brown

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

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Asa Don Brown

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

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Asa Don Brown

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

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Asa Don Brown

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

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Franz Boas
"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

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Franz Boas
"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."

Feelings

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Franz Boas
"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."

Men

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Franz Boas
"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma."

Parents

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Franz Boas
"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

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Franz Boas
"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."

Home

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Franz Boas
"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

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Franz Boas
"I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be."

May

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Franz Boas
"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time."

Time

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Franz Boas
"The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization."

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