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Ruth Benedict
No man ever...
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and...
We grow in...
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Source: An Anthropologist at...
If we justify...
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not...
The trouble is...
The trouble is not that we are never happy -- it is that happiness is so episodical.
Our faith in...
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Source: An...
Culture is not...
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Source: Patterns of Culture,...
I have always...
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
Source: In...
I long to...
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong...
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. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...
I gambled on...
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
The adequate study...
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only...
I haven't strength...
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
Source: In An Anthropologist at...
The trouble with...
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
In a world...
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...
It is strange...
It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...