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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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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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 -
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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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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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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'People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot. '
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The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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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.
