Now the only reason I could see for the lack of response by his audience was that they didn’t share my interest in probability.

Now the only reason I could see for the lack of response by his audience was that they didn’t share my interest in probability.
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    Everyone seemed to want to leave, but there he was, the man up there with the chalk holding the whole class silent and holding all of us hostage.

    Everyone seemed to want to leave, but there he was, the man up there with the chalk holding the whole class silent and holding all of us hostage.
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      I was listening to the words, and I even had some vague comprehension of what he was discussing, but I really couldn't explain my attendance.

      I was listening to the words, and I even had some vague comprehension of what he was discussing, but I really couldn't explain my attendance.
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        By "culture" anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group.

        By
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          To the insistent human question "Why?" the most exciting illumination anthropology has to offer is that of the concept of culture.

          To the insistent human question
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            By "blood" he was an American, for his parents had gone from Indiana to China as missionaries.

            By
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              A highly intelligent teacher was finishing her first year in an Indian school.

              A highly intelligent teacher was finishing her first year in an Indian school.
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                The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually the two cases were quite comparable in principle.

                The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually the two cases were quite comparable in principle.
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                  This friend is a physicist, who has spent a long career deciphering what must be happening in the interior of stars.

                  This friend is a physicist, who has spent a long career deciphering what must be happening in the interior of stars.
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                    Generation after generation, we puzzle out formulas, test them, and find, to an astonishing degree, that nature agrees.

                    Generation after generation, we puzzle out formulas, test them, and find, to an astonishing degree, that nature agrees.
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                      Scientists in our day have largely abandoned the notion of a Creator as an unnecessary hypothesis, or at least an untestable one.

                      Scientists in our day have largely abandoned the notion of a Creator as an unnecessary hypothesis, or at least an untestable one.
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                        Just so, I believe, the experience of beauty is an echo of the order and power that permeate the universe.

                        Just so, I believe, the experience of beauty is an echo of the order and power that permeate the universe.
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                          Or have we stumbled onto a deep agreement between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?

                          Or have we stumbled onto a deep agreement between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?
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                            How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with!

                            How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with!
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                              From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of goodwill, they make sweetness of life.

                              From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of goodwill, they make sweetness of life.
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