"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."

Anthropology, Evolution, Race, Truth, Wisdom

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"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."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Anthropology, Anxiety

"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Anthropology, History, Diet, Comparison

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Anthropology, Feminism

"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Anthropology, Culture, Behavior, Observation, Knowledge

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Anthropology, Behavior, Imperfection, Realism, Limit

"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Anthropology, Infinite, Name

"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."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Anthropology, Facts

"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."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Anthropology, Open, Wonder

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Anthropology,

"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."

Alfred L. Kroeber, American Scientist

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"I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past."

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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

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"Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing."

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"To understand the truth of everything,it took guts more than simply thinking."

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"Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric."

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"If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote."

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"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."

"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."

"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."

"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."

"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."

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."

"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."

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"Your mind builds your reality... based on anything you believe in."

"I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past."

"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

"Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing."

"To understand the truth of everything,it took guts more than simply thinking."

"Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric."

"If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote."