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“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― The Mismeasure of Man
― The Mismeasure of Man
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― Social Theory and Social Structure
― Social Theory and Social Structure
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