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"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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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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"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."
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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."
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"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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