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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
~ Cleveland Abbe
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The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
~ Cleveland Abbe
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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
~ Cleveland Abbe
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It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.
~ Cliff Shaw
Able
Assist
Merely
Method
Must
Problems
Solution
Solve
Them
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It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.
~ Cliff Shaw
Count
Hundreds
Little
Little Things
Things
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The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
~ Cliff Shaw
Attitudes
Concepts
Express
Ideals
Pure
Technical
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To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
~ Cliff Shaw
Along
Appear
Capable
Communication
Coordination
Getting
Handle
Information
Integrated
Must
Own
Personality
Problems
Processing
Programming
Single
System
Users
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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
~ Clifford Geertz
Always
Anthropology
Been
Even
Fairly
Female
Feminist
General
Scholars
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
~ Clifford Geertz
Anthropology
Anxiety
Because
Deal
Distinct
Great
Great Deal
Had
Matter
Method
Never
Over
Real
Subject
Subject Matter
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
~ Clifford Geertz
Advance
Almost
Anthropology
Become
Been
Consciousness
Every
Extraordinary
Field
Gender
History
Intellectual
Involved
Literature
Science
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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
~ Clifford Geertz
Been
Bias
Conscious
Feminism
Feminist
I Think
Important
Increased
Issue
Kind
Made
Masculine
More
Quite
Sensitivity
Think
Us
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
~ Clifford Geertz
Agree
Almost
Almost Nothing
Innate
Nothing
Skeptical
Structures
Very
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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
~ Clifford Geertz
Attempt
Aware
Concerns
Consciousness
Gender
Now
People
Raise
Succeeded
Think
Very
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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
~ Clifford Geertz
Alive
Argument
Atmosphere
Bad
Bad Thing
Debate
Disagreement
Feel
Field
Makes
Thing
Total
Vital
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I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
~ Clifford Geertz
Academic
Everybody
Notion
Single
Some
Style
Write
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I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
~ Clifford Geertz
Diversity
I Think
More
Moving
Point
Things
Think
Toward
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I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
~ Clifford Geertz
Beginning
Done
Drafts
End
Finished
I Write
Write
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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
~ Clifford Geertz
Africa
African
Convincing
Going
Had
Hard
Hard Time
North
North Africa
Students
Themselves
Time
Understand
Were
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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
~ Clifford Geertz
Leave
Never
Paragraph
Satisfied
Sentence
Until
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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
~ Clifford Geertz
Anthropology
Feminism
Had
I Think
Impact
Major
Major Impact
Think
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