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The children are our future, and their well-being is the truest measure of our civilization.

I have been a working man myself, and I know the value of a good education.

The Jacquard loom weaves not just patterns, but the very fabric of industrial progress.

Let my lords consider how I, by the mercy of God, having conquered the whole kingdom of the Lombards, have given it to the holy Roman church.

Cognitive control is not just about suppressing impulses, but about flexibly directing attention to achieve goals.

Language is not merely a tool for communication; it is the very fabric of thought itself.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

I model in light, not in marble.

Art is the expression of the soul's deepest emotions, captured in eternal form.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The stars are not mere points of light, but suns surrounded by their own systems, much like our own Sun.

The quasar is not just a distant beacon; it is a window into the universe's infancy.

The dark lines in the solar spectrum are fixed and unchangeable, revealing the composition of the sun's atmosphere.

The heart is not just an organ; it is the very rhythm of human existence.

We have never been modern.

Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object.

To be alive means to be entangled in the lives of others.

Gender is not a thing, but a set of social relations and practices that are constantly being produced and reproduced.

The ethnographic present is always a present that is already past.

The Amerindian cosmos is not a collection of things, but a collection of perspectives.