In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. -Levi Strauss

 

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.


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This quote is just one of 5 total Levi Strauss quotes in our collection. Levi Strauss is known for saying 'In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.' as well as some of the following quotes.

You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in.

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Gifts make slaves.

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If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. -Levi Strauss
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

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