"No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology."

-- Bronislaw Malinowski

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“This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.”
“You can't legislate sobriety.”
“Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.”
“We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.”

Source : Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Justin (Martyr), Thomas B. Falls, D.D. (2010). “The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy Or The Rule of God (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 6)”, p.394, CUA Press
“There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.”
“If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.”
“A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

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