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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop)."

"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
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"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."

"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."

"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 had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."

"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."

"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."

"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
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