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132 Anthropologist Quotes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Ultimate result Shielding men Effect World
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Objects Little happiness Gained
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Our lives Universally shortened Ignorance
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Divine right Means Uppermost
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Every cause produces more than one effect.

Every Produces Effect
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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education Object Character
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Cage Wild beast Law Selfish man
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero worship Strongest Human freedom
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Science Important thing Modify Advances
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage Ceremony Rings Finger
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government Grow Oppressive Thrown off
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
People Requisite Success Life
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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love Never ending Life's wealth
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Africa Any Child College
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Believe Change Dialogue Doing
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Learn something Everything About
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Learn True What Is right
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science Organized Common sense Beautiful theory
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Greatest Practical benefit Making Few failure
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Result Political changes Friends hope Foes fear
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Freedom and order are not incompatible. truth is strength,free discussion is the very life of truth.

Freedom Not incompatible Truth Strength
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment not authority.

The ultimate Court Appeal Observation
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Body A machine Education Possible
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All truth Long run Common sense Clarified
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Not who Right What is Important
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Scientific work Who refuse Go beyond Fact
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Only medicine Crime Woes Mankind
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Great thing The world Seek happiness Earn peace
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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Time Submit Guidance Own way
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science Has fulfilled Her function Ascertained
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Man Science Learned To believe
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

My experience The world Things left Themselves
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Truth Spread Among mankind Better
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Teach Child Wise Morality
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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

No slavery Abolished Double emancipation Master
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Scientific imagination Restrains itself Limits Probability
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Good Mankind Attainment Every man
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Make up Your mind Act decidedly Consequences
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

History warns Customary fate New truth Heresies
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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Considerable difference Among men Readiness Fall
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Only question Wise man Honest Ask himself
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Only freedom Do right Wrong Ready
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Sometimes when I say “I disagree,” I mean I think you’re wrong, but I don’t see the point of showing you how/why you’re wrong.

I disagree You're wrong The point Showing you
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German and French studies also showed that, yes, children can be infected at same rates. Still don't know the impacts/implications EXCEPT folks can stop saying kids aren't affected/don't transmit

Showed that Children Be infected Same rate
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If I live to be 45 and finally publish this book, I think I will do a cross-country bike ride and book tour. Assuming, too, that there’s a country to ride across.

Finally publish This book Cross country Bike ride
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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Expect Great things God Attempt
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Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

Prayer Believing Personal Godliness
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I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Afraid Failure Succeeding Matter
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The future is as bright as the promise of God.
Future Bright Promise God
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