"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom"

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Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

Franz Boas

#Father Quotes #Home Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.”
“We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.”
“Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?”
“Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.”

Source : William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.21, Hackett Publishing
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the worldâ€™s existence. All these half-tones of the soulâ€™s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited
“At times I make music, but in private.”
“Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.”

Source : "Busted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP". Interview with Bill McGarvey, bustedhalo.com. April 04, 2008.
“The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”

Source : Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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