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.

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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
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• 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
  • World
  • Love
  • Want

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Environment

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Past
  • Thought

• Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistakes

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Me
  • Environment

• 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
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• 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
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• 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
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• 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
  • Time
  • History
  • Past

• 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
  • May
  • You
  • Environment

• Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mysterious

• Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Unique

• I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • World
  • Work
  • Business

• As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• You're speaking coldly towards me but why is it that my heart isn't getting cold at all? Is it because your heart is saying something else? Is it because there's something else you're hoping that I'll hear? So tell me the real reason. Why are you doing this? I'll become your strength. I have the confidence to do that.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Why

• 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
  • Men
  • Past
  • Words