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Ruth Benedict: I gambled on...

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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Source: In An Anthropologist at Work, part 1, by Margaret Mead, 1959.
-- Ruth Benedict, (Jun 6 1887-1948), US anthropologist; She was an expert on American Indian tribes; wrote classic Patterns of Culture, 1934; Race, Science and Politics, 1940.


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