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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
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The wisest have the most authority.


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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.


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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.


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'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.


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I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.


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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.


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You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
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The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.


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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Making people laugh is the greatest experience.


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The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.


Fay Weldon