#cult

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#cultural #getting #historical #itself #more

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#blow #difficult #function #likelihood #made

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. ↗

— Dan Savage

#culture #first #gay #gay rights #going

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#noble #rare #things

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. ↗

— Angelo Scola

#church #determine #difficult #does #fault

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#barren #beneath #difficult #exists #immediately

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#because #college #condition #difficult #family

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#after #bus #difficult #little #old

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#coal #concept #culture #dangerous #develops

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#difficulties #eighty #fear #great #great number