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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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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Quiet! I'm expressing myself!
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Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.
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I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
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W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
