Sahlins Kinship Quotes

#1. There is a tradition that jumping off a precipice is prejudicial to the health; and therefore nobody does it. Then appears a progressive prophet and reformer, who points out that we really know nothing about it, because nobody does it. And the tradition is thereby mocked - to the peril of us all.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Yann Martel

#4. I would die for you, but i wouldn't live for you.

Ayn Rand

#5. Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As

Haruki Murakami

#6. Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Steven Spielberg

#7. I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.

Mike Scully