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Ethnographer Inspirational Quotes (48)

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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
James G. Frazer
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As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
George Amos Dorsey
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For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
Thor Heyerdahl
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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl
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I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
Thor Heyerdahl
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One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
Thor Heyerdahl
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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
James G. Frazer
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Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Thor Heyerdahl
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In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.
Thor Heyerdahl
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...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.
Thor Heyerdahl
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The drive behind life has lost none of its power proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
George Amos Dorsey
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But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Thor Heyerdahl
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Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
Thor Heyerdahl
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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
James G. Frazer
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
Thor Heyerdahl
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The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
James G. Frazer
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It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
James G. Frazer
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
James G. Frazer
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In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.
James G. Frazer
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I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
Thor Heyerdahl
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Religion is a disease. It is born of fear it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
George Amos Dorsey
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The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
James G. Frazer
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If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
James G. Frazer
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The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.
James G. Frazer
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