Tribes Quotes
371 quotes by 295 authors
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It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy.…
— Frederick Lenz
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British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of…
— Mike Harding
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When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they…
— Mike Harding
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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of…
— Justine Musk
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Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
— Jill Tarter
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In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The…
— Lettie Cowman
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Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they…
— Henry Adams
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Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance…
— Henry Adams
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If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do…
— Samuel Francis Smith
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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...…
— Henry Louis Gates
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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something…
— Seth Godin
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of…
— Seth Godin
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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
— Stanislav Grof
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
— Lev Grossman
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But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There…
— Evan Davis
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an…
— Jared Diamond
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We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it…
— Junot Diaz
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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow…
— Roger Ebert
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