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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#anthropology #anything #call #diverse #done

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #happens #his #i #i think

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #most #should #straightforward

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#i #much #people #politically #pretty

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#chords #composer #directors #distributing #far

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?' ↗

— Anthony Holden

#ask #could #enough #excuse #good

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#braille #cash #crew #crew members #developed

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. ↗

— Alveda King

#apologists #areas #because #children #clinics

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#affected #born #brother #feeling #i