Quotes by Ruth Benedict
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The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to ...
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
