Marvin Harris Quotes
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
