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Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
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Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular…
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Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that…
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An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people…
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Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking…
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Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.
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No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop…
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At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence…
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Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way…
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The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and…
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The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.
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Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong,…
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Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on…
— Unknown Author
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…
— Thomas Boswell
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And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian…
— Graeme Murphy
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In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to…
— Ronald Reagan
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Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really…
— Steven Weinberg
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I just try to think of celebrations that suprise people, that people have fun with, and that people enjoy..
— Jorge Lorenzo
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Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the…
— Jane Asher
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Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back:…
— Inga Muscio
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Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice…
— Pope Francis
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July…
— Frederick Reines
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