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In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ↗

— Franz Boas

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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

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