American - Scientist | June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
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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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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
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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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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
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I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
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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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The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
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Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
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