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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.