"If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home."

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Source : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.96, Princeton University Press

Clifford Geertz

#Home Quotes #Should Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.”
“I donâ€™t have to win. I just have to make you lose.”
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.”
“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
“After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.”
“I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.”

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