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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and huma

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

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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

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Perception
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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. – Ruth Benedict

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strength
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Culture

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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Culture

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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Culture

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

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Culture

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There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction. – Author Unknown

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I dont care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn whats not right is from experience. – Cameron Diaz

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. – Honore de Balzac

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Frank and explicit — that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. – Benjamin Disraeli

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