Adolf Bastian quotes
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“What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.”
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“A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.”
-- Adolf Bastian
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Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
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Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific
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“Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
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“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”
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“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”
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