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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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

— Clifford Geertz

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If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. ↗

— Frank Gehry

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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her. ↗

— David Geffen

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When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also. ↗

— Frank Gehry

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