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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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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
— Ruth Benedict
There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.
— Ruth Benedict
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.
— Ruth Benedict
We do not see the lens through which we look.
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Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.
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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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What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
— Ruth Benedict
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers
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War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
— Ruth Benedict
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
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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.
— Ruth Benedict
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
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The peoples of the earth are one family.
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Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
— Ruth Fulton Benedict
Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.
— Ruth Benedict
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
— Ruth Benedict
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
— Ruth Benedict
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
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Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
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The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
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Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
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