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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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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism
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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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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. – Ruth Benedict

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War
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

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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

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture

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We trust something in a grocery store and assume its good. We dont learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! – Paul Prudhomme

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Food

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. – Bob Schieffer

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Politics

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather

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Family