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... look indeed as if we were hopelessly trapped between two equally awful alternatives ? On the one hand is the gigantic struggle between two powers so tremendous that either one can lay waste and scorch beyond recognition the very body of ...
... look indeed as if we were hopelessly trapped between two equally awful alternatives ? On the one hand is the gigantic struggle between two powers so tremendous that either one can lay waste and scorch beyond recognition the very body of ...
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... look through a friend's LP collection , diving for Mozart or Sibelius ; or , in an art museum , stop for a long look at the van Goghs or Turners and pass the British portrait painters by ; or find on the menu just one item that makes ...
... look through a friend's LP collection , diving for Mozart or Sibelius ; or , in an art museum , stop for a long look at the van Goghs or Turners and pass the British portrait painters by ; or find on the menu just one item that makes ...
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... look for human nature in the wrong place ; we merely look inside the living system . We are trying , as it were , to get the golden eggs by killing the goose ; or indeed by studying the pedigree of the goose we have hoped to find ...
... look for human nature in the wrong place ; we merely look inside the living system . We are trying , as it were , to get the golden eggs by killing the goose ; or indeed by studying the pedigree of the goose we have hoped to find ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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