It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.
Source: In An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict, by Margaret Mead, 1959.
-- 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.