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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,

"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

"It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border."

"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice."

"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."
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"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."

"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."

"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning."

"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."

"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."

"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
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