Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

Ruth Benedict's Popular Quotes

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

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I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

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We do not see the lens through which we look.

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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. F…

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

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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