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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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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for…
— Miguel Indurain
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and…
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…
— Charles Darwin
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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…
— Franz Boas
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The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the…
— John Amos Comenius
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Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes;…
— John Stuart Mill
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The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god,…
— Steve McVey
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there…
— Aldous Huxley
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Power always impresses the young and foolish.
— Darren Shan
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Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
— Neville Goddard
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