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Franz Boas has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be…
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk…
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more…
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Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on…
— Omar Suleiman
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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;…
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have…
— Georges Bernanos
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I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen
— Alan Ladd
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An author's first duty is to let down his country.
— Brendan Behan
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Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten…
— John Landy
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,…
— E. M. Forster
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I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.
— Tim McGraw
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I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.
— Tyson Gay
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