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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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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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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to…
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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly…
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The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value…
— Thomas Merton
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and…
— W G Sebald
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Most designers and creative agencies, no matter their industry niche, will do some nonprofit or cause-related work at some stage of their…
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