Ruth Benedict Quotes

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.

Ruth Benedict

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948

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Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Jim Gerlach

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Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

Jessica Simpson

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If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

Joel Osteen

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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

Jeffrey Pierce

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There is a $30 bn. opportunity in the cloud.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

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Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Shirley Henderson

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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Robert Browning

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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda

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I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle.

Mindy Grossman

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I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

Jayma Mays

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We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.

Jose Angel Gurria

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I used to do cabaret as a kid and always wanted to pick it up again.

Debra Stephenson

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