"Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in."

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Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

— George Packer