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Marvin Harris

"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs."

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"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs."

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Aberjhani

"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

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Aberjhani

"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."

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Aberjhani

"I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation."

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Aberjhani

"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."

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Aberjhani

"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."

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Aberjhani

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."

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Aberjhani

"I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen."

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Aberjhani

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."

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Aberjhani

"Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn."

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Aberjhani

"You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus."

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Marvin Harris
"When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk."

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Marvin Harris
"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."

Food

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Marvin Harris
"Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough."

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Marvin Harris
"The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others."

People

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Marvin Harris
"But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically."

Revolution

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Marvin Harris
"Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities."

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Marvin Harris
"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy."

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Marvin Harris
"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East."

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Marvin Harris
"The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world."

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Marvin Harris
"Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food."

Food

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