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Anthropologist Inspirational Quotes (5220)

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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
Victor Papanek
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Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
Victor Papanek
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them
Victor Papanek
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In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.
Victor Papanek
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Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
Victor Papanek
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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
Joseph Campbell
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise
Victor Turner
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The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
Victor Turner
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A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.
Max Weber
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall
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Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.
Angeles Arrien
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One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, Zusai, why weren't you Zusai? Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.
Angeles Arrien
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We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
Angeles Arrien
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When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
Angeles Arrien
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Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
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I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.
Angeles Arrien
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The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
Angeles Arrien
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In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
Angeles Arrien
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Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.
Noam Chomsky
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Ruth Benedict
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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
T. E. Lawrence
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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
Terence McKenna
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