Quotes of: Margaret-thatcher Keyword

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

Edward Sapir

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

Edward Sapir

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Edward Sapir

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Edward Burnett Tylor

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Clifford Geertz

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Clifford Geertz

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

Clifford Geertz

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Clifford Geertz

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Clifford Geertz

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Clifford Geertz

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

James Henry Breasted

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

George Stigler

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Donald Johanson

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Jane Goodall