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The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Raymond Aron

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Raymond Aron
Age: 78 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 14
Died: 1983
Died: October 17
Economist
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Professor
Sociologist
Writer
Paris
France
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron
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Atheism
Revolution
Intellectual
Opium
Longer
Attached
Wants
Provides
System
Certainty
Opinion
Satisfied
Anything
Merely

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