Ralph Linton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.
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The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods
-- Ralph Linton -
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
-- Ralph Linton
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me
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To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
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