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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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War
Hostility
Another
Antiwar
Men
Primaries
Primary
Civilized
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Menaced
Society
Disintegration
Peace
Perpetually

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