#rent

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. ↗

— Franz Boas

#allowing #ceremonial #emotional #father #freedom

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ↗

— Franz Boas

#dogma #had #parents #shackles #through

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. ↗

— Franz Boas

#actual #also #apparently #application #brought

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

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#created #different #different things #distract #help

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#every #gone #happy #parent #period

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#asking #different #everybody #gets #how

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#brain #centers #different #emotional #emotional level

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#asks #daughter #different #every #explanations

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ↗

— Will Eisner

#been #day #different #funny #historically