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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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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths…
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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 first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that…
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Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean…
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Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent…
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For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean,…
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Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth…
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
— John Lanchester
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