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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/626/">Quotes by <em>Benedict, Ruth</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Ruth Benedict (ne Fulton) (June 6, 1887 September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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