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Claude Lévi-Strauss - The Savage Mind (1962)

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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think."

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Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man.

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Born: November 28, 1908
Died: October 30, 2009 (aged 100)
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