Marvin Harris Quotes

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Marvin Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1927 - October 25, 2001

Topics

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If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

Ann Makosinski

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Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

Michael Graves

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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

Jean M. Auel

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'Peter Pan' makes 'Black Watch' and 'The Bacchae' look like a walk in the park.

John Tiffany

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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.

Mike Birbiglia

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Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

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To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

Diego Klattenhoff

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We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

Dean Devlin

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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Arthur Erickson

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We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

Ariel Sharon

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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Polly Toynbee

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