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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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strength
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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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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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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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Anthropology

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