Franz Boas Quotes
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
Franz Boas
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
Ted Turner
What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
Foster Friess
In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
Halle Berry
I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
Eddie Marsan
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
Madi Diaz
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
Karen Salmansohn
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Carlos Ghosn
The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
Edith Pearlman
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer
Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.
Pattie Boyd
Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.
Kate Moss
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
Marianne Williamson
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
Franz Boas
