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“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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