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Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

Source: Male and Female, 1949.
-- Margaret Mead, (Dec 16 1901-1978), US anthropologist, author; She specialized in the study of primitive cultures; wrote Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples, 1937.

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