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Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

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Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

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Born: March 25, 1921
Died: May 16, 2007 (aged 86)
Bio: Dame Mary Douglas was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology.
Known for:
  1. Purity and Danger (1966)
  2. Natural Symbols (1970)
  3. How Institutions Think (1986)
  4. Risk and Blame (1992)

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