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When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Rene Girard
Rene Girard
Born: Dec 25, 1923
Died: Nov 4, 2015

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Focus, Become, Lose, Proliferate, Sight, Scandals, Objects, Rivals, Obsessed, Another, Begin, Human, Human Beings, Which, Beings, Compete

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