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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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Power, Water and Roads...Earlier only these were considered as basic requirements for the poor. But we have added more to it - Education and Health. By giving impetus to these five elements, we are not only creating employment opportunities but also securing their future. And, that is why the mantra of 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas' is resonating across the country."

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Donna Grant

"Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society."

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Donna Grant

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

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Donna Grant

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."

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Donna Grant

"No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life."

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Donna Grant

"Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to."

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Donna Grant

"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one."

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Donna Grant

"All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms."

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Marvin Harris
"However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings."

Mammals

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Marvin Harris
"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour."

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."

Food

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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
"The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits."

Efficiency

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Marvin Harris
"I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk."

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Marvin Harris
"Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect."

Being

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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."

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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."

Food

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Marvin Harris
"Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals."

Animals

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