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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edit

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

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Culture
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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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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is –in other words, not a thing, but a think. – Penelope Fitzgerald

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

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