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Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

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Ruth Benedict Faith Japan Materialism Spirit United States Victory War

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

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Ruth Benedict Anthropology Differences Peace

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

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Ruth Benedict Faith Unity

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

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Ruth Benedict This Moment

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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Ruth Benedict Find Always Examination

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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Ruth Benedict Future Today Racism

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

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Ruth Benedict Life Community Down

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

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Ruth Benedict Future Long Present

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

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Ruth Benedict Time Trust Grow
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