Edmund Leach Quotes
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.
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I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.
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For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
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If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
