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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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by...

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by...

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by...

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by...

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives...

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives...

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself...

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself...

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so...

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so...

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns...

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns...

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or...

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or...

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the...

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the...

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one...

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one...

The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is...

The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make...

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make...