Quotes of: Spencer-tracy Keyword

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

Talcott Parsons

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Talcott Parsons

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louise Leakey

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

Lyall Watson

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Lyall Watson

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

Martha Beck

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Martha Beck

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

Martha Beck

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Martha Beck

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Mary Catherine Bateson

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.

Marvin Harris

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Marvin Harris

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Mary Leakey

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Mead

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Margaret Mead

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Margaret Mead