Robert Wright - Quotes

 If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it. 

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The Addiction - Quotes

 Kathleen Conklin:
What's your major?
Anthropology Student:
Anthropology.
Kathleen Conklin:
Do you like it?
Anthropology Student:
What else is there? "Man is the measure of all things."
Kathleen Conklin:
Protagoras, right?
Anthropology Student:
[makes affirmative noise] What are you studying?
Kathleen Conklin:
Adversity's sweet milk: philosophy.
 

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Robert Anton Wilson - Quotes

 We have been told over and over that  

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Margaret Mead - Quotes

 I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? 

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Clifford Geertz - Quotes

 Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. 

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Robert Owen - Quotes

 All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer 

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Clifford Geertz - Quotes

 The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable. 

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Cuba Gooding Jr - Quotes

 Alle  

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William Carlos Williams - Quotes

 The pure products of America

go crazy...



...[] No one

to witness

and adjust, no one to drive the car 

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Clifford Geertz - Quotes

 It may be in the cultural particularities of people  

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Marshall Sahlins - Quotes

 One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture. 

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Kurt Vonnegut - Quotes

 I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. 

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Mary Doria Russell - Quotes

 Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction?

Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was  

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