Eric Wolf famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.
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In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims
-- Eric Wolf
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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Will is the dynamic soul-force.
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Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
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The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
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Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
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