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"It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time." »Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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"anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." »Alfred L. Kroeber
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"anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different." »Nancy Banks-Smith
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"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences." »Ruth Benedict
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"anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet." »Michael Brian Schiffer
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together" »Clyde Kluckhohn
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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