War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our … - Ruth Benedict

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Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them. . . It doesn't seem strange to me.

Ruth Benedict

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

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

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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

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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. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

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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.

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