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Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
Biologist
Film Director
Linguist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Semiotician
Sociologist
Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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Alcohol
Surrender
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Intoxication

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