The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society — that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (.) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful. . Thomas Hylland Eriksen
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that...
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C. Joybell C.
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
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