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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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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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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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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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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
— Roland Barthes
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown…
— Carl Linnaeus
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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…
— Franz Boas
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For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their…
— Don Berliner
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for…
— Karl Landsteiner
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