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September 30, 2009

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences".

-David Ben Gurion

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September 28, 2009

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs".

-David Ben Gurion

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September 27, 2009

"Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another".

-Ferdinand de Saussure

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September 24, 2009

"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium".

-J.B.S. Haldane

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September 22, 2009

"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics".

-Jean Auel

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September 19, 2009

"People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.".

-Edward Murrow

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September 18, 2009

"At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols".

-Aldous Huxley

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September 17, 2009

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric".

-Philip Crosby

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September 16, 2009

"To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity".

-Roy Basler

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September 15, 2009

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands".

-Plato

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September 13, 2009

"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke".

-Alvin Toffler

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September 12, 2009

"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous".

-Clifford Geertz

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September 11, 2009

"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science".

-Edward Wilson

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September 10, 2009

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared".

-Thomas Jefferson

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September 9, 2009

"Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind. ".

-Ginny Waite

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September 8, 2009

"To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic".

-George Santayana

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September 7, 2009

"The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development".

-Margaret Murray

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September 6, 2009

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve".

-Erich Fromm

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September 5, 2009

"Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions ".

-Barry Asmus

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September 4, 2009

"A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.".

-Arabic Proverb

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September 2, 2009

"All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon".

-Voltaire

September 1, 2009

"All men by nature desire knowledge".

-Aristotle