I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
Clifford GeertzCultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Clifford GeertzLearning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.
Clifford GeertzThe North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
Clifford Geertz