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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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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the…
— John Berger
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right…
— Yogaswami
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the…
— Wayne Grudem
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.
— Ibn Hazm
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When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider…
— Cecil O. Samuelson
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The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become…
— Loren C. Dunn
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This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness…
— Alexander Nehamas
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Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
— Margot Asquith
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Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.
— Hannah Arendt
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
— Gabrielle Roy
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