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Ruth Benedict [1887-1948] American

Rank: 102
Scientist, Anthropologist

Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College and graduated in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, where she studied under Franz Boas. She received her Ph.D and joined the faculty in 1923.

Future, Strength, Faith, Time, Trust

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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.		101
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.		102
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.		103
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.	Future, Time, Trust	104
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.		105
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.		106
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.	Faith, Future	107
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.	Strength	108
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.		109
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.		110
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.		111
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.		112
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.		113
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.	Strength	114
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.		115

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