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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human di

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. – Ruth Benedict

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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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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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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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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. – Alfred L. Kroeber

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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together? – Clyde Kluckhohn

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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