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... things which he can do , it becomes more and more an action - self . See how fast I can run ! But whatever is em ... things that one can do , things that are acceptable or unacceptable to others , things that win the prestige or status ...
... things which he can do , it becomes more and more an action - self . See how fast I can run ! But whatever is em ... things that one can do , things that are acceptable or unacceptable to others , things that win the prestige or status ...
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... things that are craved and the general tendency to crave that particular class of thing— food , activity , music - must be seen in individual terms . Another important factor is the intensity of deprivations in the satisfactions of ...
... things that are craved and the general tendency to crave that particular class of thing— food , activity , music - must be seen in individual terms . Another important factor is the intensity of deprivations in the satisfactions of ...
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... thing upon these sensitive and hungry tissues of ours can make itself felt , en- gendering a hunger which often demands more of the stuff which gave it birth . As Walt Whitman had it , poetry belongs " to real things , and to real things ...
... thing upon these sensitive and hungry tissues of ours can make itself felt , en- gendering a hunger which often demands more of the stuff which gave it birth . As Walt Whitman had it , poetry belongs " to real things , and to real things ...
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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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