Capacity Quote by Ruth Benedict

“No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.”

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

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It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

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

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