Quotes about Ruth Benedict

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which...

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

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

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

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Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

#Ruth Benedict