A Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.
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Kissinger's unusually high body count and singular moral imperiousness has the effect, among his critics, of obscuring his didactic utility. An outsized personality who has committed outsized mayhem, Kissinger eclipses his own context. Yet, as animals were to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Kissinger is good to think with.
My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.
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Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
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