Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes
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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
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Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."
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J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.
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One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
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Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.
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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
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W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
