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"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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"The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!"
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"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"
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"The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers-much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers."
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"The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever."
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"Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are."
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"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
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"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
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"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People
"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
Beauty
"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
Feminism
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