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Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
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Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular…
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Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that…
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An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people…
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Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking…
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Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.
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No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop…
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At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence…
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Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way…
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The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and…
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The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.
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Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong,…
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy…
— Stephen Brookfield
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Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the…
— Friedrich Naumann
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I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.
— Mark Edward
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The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new…
— John Gierach
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I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an…
— Stuart Appleby
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Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise…
— Bernd Heinrich
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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're…
— Sarah Silverman
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The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day…
— C.S. Lewis
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People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline…
— Sydney J. Harris
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