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The Raw and the Cooked (1964)
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.…
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
November 28, 1908
Died:
October 30, 2009
(aged 100)
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