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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
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The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
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No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.
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We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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June 5, 1887
Died:
September 17, 1948
(aged 61)
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