Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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Societies depend on agreed rules.
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My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
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What media loves is to focus on the candidates. What the American people, I believe, want is for us to focus on them, not the candidates, not anymore.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
