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Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
Creative thought must always contain a random component.
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
The human body is always treated as an image of society.
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
Information consists of differences that make a difference.
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.