"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."

-- Edmund Leach

#Hope Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.”
“In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.”
“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner”
“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people”
“I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."”
“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.”
“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”
“It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.232, Rowman Altamira

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