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In a world...

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In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Source: Journal entry, 20 May l 913, during her brief career as a boarding-schooll teacher.
-- Ruth Benedict, (Jun 6 1887-1948), US anthropologist; She was an expert on American Indian tribes; wrote classic Patterns of Culture, 1934; Race, Science and Politics, 1940.


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