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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"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."
"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."
"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
"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."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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