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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Making Money
Thinking
Wish
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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Clifford Geertz
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Anthropologist
Alive
Atmosphere
Debate
Disagreement
Fields
Bad Thing
Vital
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Ruth Benedict
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Anthropologist
Men
Customs
Definite
Edited
Eye
Institutions
Looks
Pristine
Thinking
Eyes Man World
Set
Ever
Eyes
Sees
Ways
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Race
Sense Of Humor
Way
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One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
Ernest Becker
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Anthropologist
Men
War
Sorry
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You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
Johnnetta B. Cole
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Anthropologist
Knowing
Path
Thinking
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Love
True Love
Impress
May
Singing
Neighbors
Satisfy
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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Eyes Watching
Towns
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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
Clifford Geertz
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Anthropologist
Convincing
Hard Times
North Africa
Students
Africa
African
Hard Time
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
David Graeber
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Anthropologist
Anthropology
States
Together
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It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.
Liza Dalby
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Anthropologist
Jobs
Creating
Writing
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
Mary Douglas
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Anthropologist
Jobs
Ephemeral
Mobility
Stability
Geographical
Intensified
Relationships
Volatile
Weaker
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Minorities
Problem
Race
Thinking
Urgent
Welfare
National
Race Problem
Realize
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu
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Anthropologist
Health
Science
Disease
Doctors
Taught
Interested
Doctor
Public
Cure
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
David Graeber
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Anthropologist
Schemes
True Value
Values
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While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.
Johnnetta B. Cole
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Anthropologist
Action
People
Vision
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
Ernest Becker
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Anthropologist
Animal
Mean
Self
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Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
Eugenie Scott
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Anthropologist
Biology
Evolution
Students
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The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
Ruth Behar
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Anthropologist
Anxiety
Criticism
Ethnography
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Courage
Nerves
Reality
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Different
Love Is
Sea
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Friendship
Ocean
Limits
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We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Angeles Arrien
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Anthropologist
Trust
Fear
Christian
Letting Go
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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Ashley Montagu
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Anthropologist
Born
Development
Fulfillment
Humanity
Virtue
Being
Every
Human
His
Human Being
Right
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I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.
David Graeber
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Anthropologist
Needs
Thinking
Way
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The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
Franz Boas
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Anthropologist
Ancestry
Character
Determined
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth Lee Pike
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Anthropologist
Believe
Normal
Theology
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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Diversity
Justice
Pay
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Opportunity
Mom
Children
Mama
Might
Mothers Day
Sun
Every Opportunity
Ground
Off
Her
Would
Jump
Least
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Boys
Laughing
Mean
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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Fear
Men
Suffering
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
Ashley Montagu
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Anthropologist
College
Littles
Medical School
School
Good Deal
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The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
Ernest Becker
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Anthropologist
Art
Personality
World
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When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.
Joan Halifax
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Anthropologist
Buddhism
Exposed
Firsts
Said
Practical
Utterly
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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
Clifford Geertz
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Anthropologist
Anthropology
Regard
Rhetoric
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If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
Dean Falk
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Anthropologist
Brain
Evolution
Language
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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Derek Freeman
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Anthropologist
Ethics
Morality
Needs
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Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
Eugenie Scott
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Anthropologist
Evolution
Fields
Spheres
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is
Clifford Geertz
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Anthropologist
Anxiety
Matter
Real
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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
Franz Boas
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Anthropologist
Home
Emotional
Father
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Dawn
Done
Tree
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Anthropologist
Cold
Memories
Rocks
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
Clifford Geertz
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Anthropologist
Anthropology
Matter
Method
Subject Matter
Deal
Distinct
Great Deal
Subject
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Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.
David Graeber
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Anthropologist
Done
Expectations
Party
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The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.
Donald Symons
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Anthropologist
Men
Boys
Feminism
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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.
Franz Boas
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Anthropologist
Affection
Allowing
Influence
Parental
Ceremonial
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Mary Douglas
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Anthropologist
Injustice
Vicious
Enemies
Madly
Provoke
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Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.
Angeles Arrien
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Anthropologist
Our Relationship
Purpose
Two
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community
Ruth Benedict
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Anthropologist
Community
Firsts
Patterns
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Anthropologist
Photography
Snapshots
Vision
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