The trouble is not that we are never happy -- it is that happiness is so episodical.
¶ (Attributed)
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Ruth Benedict (1887-1947) American anthropologist
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.
¶ Patterns of Culture, I (1934)
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.
¶ Patterns of Culture, I (1934)
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