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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 the relative value… — Franz Boas
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish. — Unknown Author
The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment. — Hassan Nasrallah
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they… — Hassan Nasrallah
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came. — Peter De Vries
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer… — Bernard Cornwell
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — Unknown Author
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted… — Henry David Thoreau
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for… — Thomas Jefferson
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under… — Alexander Hamilton
It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming… — George Washington
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be… — Roger Sherman
If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big. — Steve Kanaly
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… — Thomas Jefferson
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
All power in human hands is liable to be abused. — James Madison

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