Community Quote by Ruth Benedict

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“The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community”

Ruth Benedict

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

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An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better.…

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In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race…

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It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

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“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”

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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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Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

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

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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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Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations…

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

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The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was…

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

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It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

Dwight Schultz

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Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at…

Donna Freitas

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

Orson Scott Card