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Category: Deep Quotations
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Goethe In celebration of the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education grateful for gratefulness
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo Grateful to Gratefulness.org
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“Anthropology will survive in a changing world by allowing itself to perish in order to be born again under a new guise.”–Claude Lévi-Strauss, quoted in Lewis (1973: 586). Thanks to the very rad openanthropology project for the quote.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson grateful to grateful.org
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Analytic Induction is the hallmark of great ethnography. Leonardo da Vinci, the great “pre-Principia natural philosopher” (if you will allow such an figurative appellation) that he was, was well aware of this fact, many years before it existed. Here are some choice quotations I found that illustrate my point. Common Sense is that which judges…
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Some time ago, John Norvell posted this quote on his blog at anthroblogs. A Jesuit theologian, Edward T. Oakes, reviewing Gary Wills’ latest book on the Catholic Church, chides him with this little gem: As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies…
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Trying to keep my thoughts tame There is a deep anthropological joke here: Can anybody guess it?
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Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. -Sri Swami Satchidananda Blogged with Flock Tags: DeepQuote
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For us, ANT was simply another way at being faithful to the insight of ethnomethodology: actors know what they do and we have to learn from them not only what they do, but how and why they do it. It is us, the social scientists, who lack the knowledge of what they do, and not…
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce The Gratefulness Team Blogged with Flock
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