What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

- Ruth Benedict

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No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional...
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The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
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liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

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