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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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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the…
— John Mott
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It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
— Jacques Monod
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The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through…
— Lord Kelvin
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If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a…
— Unknown Author
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Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church…
— Pope Leo XIII
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What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
— Vaclav Klaus
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Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from…
— Unknown Author
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,…
— Victor Hugo
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of…
— Edward Everett
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What I am interested in is the present time
— Sophie Marceau
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