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Scholarship is polite argument.

Philip Rieff

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Philip Rieff
Age: 83 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 15
Died: 2006
Died: July 1
Cultural Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Rieff
Scholarship
Polite
Argument
Knowledge

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