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Riddle Quotes by Gregory Bateson
- It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
- A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given…
- It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and…
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