Clyde Kluckhohn quotes
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“Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.”
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“Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.”
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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 KluckhohnSource : Clyde Kluckhohn (2017). “Mirror for Man: The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life”, p.29, Routledge
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“The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.”
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“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.”
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
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“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
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