"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma"

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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

#Broken Quotes #Parent Quotes #Dogma Quotes

“The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.”
“It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.”
“Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.”
“When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.”
“During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”
“[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.”
“When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.”

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