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Franz Boas has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with…
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There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality…
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according…
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it…
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of…
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the…
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned…
— Joseph Hall
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning…
— Chuck Baldwin
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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