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Lewis H Lapham: Presumptuous society 

​”A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”

—Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (b. 8 Jan 1935). 


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