Cultural Process Quotes by 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.
• The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
• A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions…
• I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
• Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the…
• We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the…
• The peoples of the earth are one family.
• I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
• The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some…
• Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

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