Quote by Bronislaw Malinowski
"The ceremony that seems wasteful to the outsider is investment in social bonds to the insider."
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"The function of religion is to organize, discipline, and codify behavior"
"Man must act, and in acting he will learn"
"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without writing"
"The essence of all magic is that between the human mind and the world there is a community of nature"