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Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

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The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

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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. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

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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.

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