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

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  Believe, World, Desperation

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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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.

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  War, Civilization, Faces

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.

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  Science, Events, Negative

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.385, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Expression, Justification, Feels

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.143, Transaction Publishers

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• . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

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  Children, Hands, Left Hand

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

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  Religious, Art, Motivation

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Long, Rebel, Different

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.123, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Civilization, Historical, Groups

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

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  Baby, Children, Book

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.126, Transaction Publishers

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