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> [. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/work-even-when-i-m-satisfied-with-it-is-never-my-child-i-love-nor-my/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

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## More by Ruth Benedict

> [We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/we-grow-in-time-to-trust-the-future-for-our-answers/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/an-observer-will-see-the-bizarre-developments-of-behavior-only-in/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/in-world-history-those-who-have-helped-to-build-the-same-culture-are/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/it-is-strange-how-long-we-rebel-against-a-platitude-until-suddenly-in/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/experience-contrary-to-common-belief-is-mostly-imagination/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/i-gambled-on-having-the-strength-to-live-two-lives-one-for-myself-and/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/western-civilization-because-of-fortuitous-historical-circumstances/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-trouble-is-not-that-we-are-never-happy-it-is-that-happiness-is-so/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/it-is-my-necessary-breath-of-life-to-understand-and-expression-is-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-purpose-of-anthropology-is-to-make-the-world-safe-for-human/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/success-and-failure-in-our-own-national-economy-will-hang-upon-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/i-haven-t-strength-of-mind-not-to-need-a-career/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/as-a-matter-of-history-great-developments-in-art-have-often-been/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-japanese-are-to-the-highest-degree-both-aggressive-and/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/society-in-its-full-sense-is-never-an-entity-separable-from-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

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