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1. "If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present." ~ Franz Boas
2. "Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers." ~ Franz Boas
3. "I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be." ~ Franz Boas
4. "Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth." ~ Franz Boas
5. "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
6. "My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom." ~ Franz Boas
7. "My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma." ~ Franz Boas
8. "I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time." ~ Franz Boas
9. "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
10. "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
11. "In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party." ~ Franz Boas
12. "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
13. "It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life." ~ Franz Boas
14. "The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science." ~ Franz Boas

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An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true."
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