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10 quotes by Daniel Everett

Daniel Leonard Everett (born 1951 in Holtville, California ) is an American author and academic best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language. As of July 1, 2010 he serves as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Prior to Bentley University, Everett was Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He has...
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and... →

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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief... →

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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have... →

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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not... →

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It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure... →

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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death... →

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I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to... →

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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to... →

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