Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
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It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.Ruth Benedict
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
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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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I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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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.
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