"The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living."

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Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin

Claude Levi-Strauss

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“Men without joy seem like corpses.”
“We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.”
“Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.”
“A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.”
“We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.”
“To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.”
“However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.”
“The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness.”

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