#cons

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ↗

— Abba Eban

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A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #again #back #been #call

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#automatically #conservative #economy #just #like

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#decision #individual #join #left #money

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#congress #conservative #hey #i #member

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ↗

— Franz Boas

#consciously #know #life #nevertheless #private

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. ↗

— Franz Boas

#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#around #being #big #clown #constantly

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. ↗

— Franz Boas

#characteristics #classes #considered #different #discuss

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ↗

— George Eliot

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