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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.
I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.