"Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means."

-- John Carroll

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
“I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant”
“I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.”

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“Struggle is the enemy, but weed is the remedy.”
“Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!”
“Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”

Source : "Benedict Cumberbatch landed Star Trek role with pitch filmed on iPhone" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.
“Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1839). “The Collected Works: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy”, p.167

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