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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

~Edmund Leach

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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

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Topics: Beasts Cook Food Men Reasons Show Symbolic

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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

~Edmund Leach

Topics: About Barriers Because Beings Between Creating Forever Human Human Beings Like Men Us Violence Who World

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1910

Died: January 6th, 1989

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