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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man…

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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of…
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies…
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races…
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others…
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's…
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or…
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and…
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a…
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful…
The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being are gone.…

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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies… — Bronislaw Malinowski
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. — James Whistler
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the… — James Madison
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. — James M. Barrie
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good… — Thomas Mann
There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted… — Neil Gaiman
Death is perfectly safe. (55) — Stephen Levine
There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge… — John Ortberg
Just — just to be clear,” he said. “You want to leave Tonks at her parents’ house and come away with us?”… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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