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I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
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In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation…
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I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than…
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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we…
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account…
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Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving…
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than…
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Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part…
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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,…
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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the…
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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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…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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