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Quote by Clifford Geertz
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz

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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. – Clifford Geertz

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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isnt a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. – Clifford Geertz

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. – Milan Kundera

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I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. – Howard Lindsay

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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within. – Rachel Stevens

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I cant live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. – Traci Bingham

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Ones age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. – Thomas Arnold

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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they werent guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. – John Grisham

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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. – Dorothy Day

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Id be a liar if I said I had a normal family. – Edward Furlong

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